Do you know what happens to hydrogen when the temp drops below 14K?
Yeah. Metal.
Doesn't it also need to be under immense pressure? I don't think low temperature alone is enough.
That's hard af
Metallic hydrogen may also make up parts of Jupiter's core.
Metallic or solid? Those are two different things, and depending on the answer, i will be going down a knowledge rabbit hole
That's fucking badass
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Plutonium is not a real element.
It's a dwarf element.
*The Periodic Table according to Michael Jackson
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Ah yes, oxygen, my favourite metal
It sticks to a magnet, that means metal right?
You think that's air you're breathing now?
Iodine is a transition metal I will die on this hill.
Care to defend your position? Iodine is certainly not in the d-block...
The intended joke is that hypervalent iodine compounds like Dess-Martin periodinane flip between different oxidation states like you often see for transition metals. As an example, the mechanism usually drawn for oxidations by DMP is similar to those drawn for, e.g., PCC/Jones reagent, where the electrons removed from the substrate is "banked" at the metal center. Obviously, redox chemistry is not at all limited to transition metals, but I am often surprised at iodine's propensity to engage in it. A lot of research over the past decade or two has also developed redox catalysis with these reagents, reactivity which is commonly (though again not always) the purview of transition metals.
What about metallic hydrogen in the core of planets?
Funnily enough, probably not a metal according to astronomers.
"Wait, they're ALL metals?"
"Always have been."
Physicists are notorious for approximating, and astronomers are even worse. But there are some subfields where they care about being more precise, and you maybe break the periodic table into a handful of elements plus alphas. And there's that one or two people getting exquisite spectral resolution and signal-to-noise on a few stars and measuring the abundance of Technetium or whatever.
It's why I fucking love astrophysics. There's so much handwaving because so much information is observed.
But without the handwaving you can't find crazy ass things like nuclear fusion being behind the power of stars. You find these really big numbers everywhere that make the "normal stuff" negligible.
It not that the precision isn't important, it's just not always relevant at particular scales, like the scale of space.
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